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Exploring the Essential Features of “Jennifer Dieter – Post Pregnancy Pains”
Speaker: Jennifer Dieter, MPT
Duration: 2 Hours
Format: Audio and Video
Copyright: Apr 13, 2023
Media Type: Digital Seminar
Description
Make the transition into mom life easier with effective tools for the aches and pains that go hand in hand with having a baby. Explore the biomechanical and hormonal changes that impact the musculoskeletal system alongside proven strategies to restore function post-partum. Learn today’s best techniques for therapeutic exercise, postural modifications, and low-cost tools to restore core function and reduce pain for common post-partum issues.
Speaker
Jennifer Dieter, MPT, is a physical therapist with 24 years of experience in outpatient physical therapy and sports medicine. She has achieved success in the treatment of cervical and lumbar spine, surgical and non-surgical orthopedic injuries, sports medicine, back pain during pregnancy, and women’s health patients with her manual therapy skills and functional treatment philosophies. She has experience working with high-level professional athletes, CrossFit athletes, “weekend warriors”, and implemented a strength and conditioning program for adolescents. She is an eight-time CrossFit Games masters athlete, finishing between 9th and 5th overall from 2015-2022, and has won several recent CrossFit Masters events. She also set a National record for the USA Weightlifting in 2016 for the snatch, clean and jerk and total, in 2018 set the World Record in Weightlifting for the same events. She also won the National Championship in 2020 and won the World Championship for Weightlifting in 2022.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Jennifer Dieter is the co-owner of First Coast CrossFit, is the CEO of Dieter Dynamics, and has an employment relationship with Brazen CrossFit. She is the chief contributor to Master’s Chatter Podcast. Jennifer Dieter receives a speaking honorarium from RockTape. She receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. All relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations have been mitigated.
Non-financial: Jennifer Dieter has no relevant non-financial relationships.
Objectives
- Investigate the anatomic and physiologic changes related to pregnancy and postpartum and how they affect evaluation and intervention.
- Perform an appropriate evaluation of a pregnant or postpartum patient with musculoskeletal dysfunction or pain.
- Assess for diastasis rectus abdominis with objective measurement skills.
- Demonstrate proper breathing techniques to help stabilize the core.
- Assess functional planes of motion and develop treatment plan based on these planes of motion.
- Demonstrate progressions and regressions for strength training and exercises.
- Develop an exercise plan to get a postpartum woman back to exercising.
Outline
Musculoskeletal Changes Associated with Pregnancy and Associated Dysfunction
- Biomechanical changes
- Hormonal implications
- Postural adaptations
- Low back, neck, and shoulder pain
- Core weakness/diastasis recti
- Incontinence
Exercise, Manual Therapy and Simple Interventions to Reduce Pain and Optimize Function
- Enhance Core Function:
- Diaphragmatic breathing techniques
- External pelvic floor exercises
- Exercise progressions and regressions
- Shoulder, Neck and Low Back Pain:
- Manual therapy techniques
- Therapeutic exercise
- Kinesiology taping
- Modifications to posture for baby care that reduce pain
Target Audience
- Athletic Trainers
- Chiropractors
- Nurses
- Occupational Therapists
- Occupational Therapy Assistants
- Physical Therapists
- Physical Therapy Assistants
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